Chef works best to enable our team to keep a tight watch on security concerns while allowing developers to create self-service vms and bootstrap them with their custom cookbooks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The biggest downside is that we have to use WSL to use test kitchen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The biggest upside is the ability to maintain IT infrastructure config as code. This allows for easy scaling and management of resources. It also ensures no unplanned configuration drift. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The minor inconvenience with using chef is handling the installation of the chef client on the remote hosts.

I think it would be better if chef provides an easier tooling to manage the initial setup/installation of the chef-client on the hosts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Progress Chef is an amazing tool for devops automation. The ease with which we can configure the instructions using receipes and cookbooks are the best feature. It is implemented using Ruby language which is super easy to understand and use as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The chef workstation for development for cookbooks and recipes should possible be replaced by something of a UI based. Something similar to Jenkins which can provide easy configuration options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We like to use this for push model for CIS benchmark configurations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is good if we can have push model to use to deploy configurations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chef provides us with the ability to manage infrastructure (specifically servers or IaaS resources) in a scalable way across platforms and locations. Its ease of use and common language across operating systems give the ability to easily bridge gaps between teams and understanding, thus breaking down knowledge silos and facilitating the ownership of infrastructure code by traditional application teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes the learning curve can be steep for organizations that do not have an in-house subject matter expert. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Agnostic tool that can provide support across cloud environments. Avoiding code lock-in is a best practice for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are dependencies across versions that can problematic. Changes to the user interface were not ideal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is very user friendly and helps in staying organized and ensures good quality in mass. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Documentation of new features is sometimes not very clear. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chef is really powerful configuration management tool with great customization options and flexibility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Agent installation, complexity of use and troubleshooting steps Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Overall sessions are good; thank you for an excellent course. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

nothing, Quality of the content was excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I was in deployment department so for every software I need to configure all server manuall like supponse you have many servers that time you don't need to configure you all server just only update on workstation then it will update on all servers another thing is some times yon need to change you ENV variable so that time you can't run you dockesr image for all server instead of these just replace value by suing chef is another best part also for CI/DC part is best Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Here is nothing for dislike, but If they provide us containerization with server configuration like dockers with chef that time it will really easy to handle and many people will switch on this Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.